Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) - Presidential elections are taking place in Uzbekistan. At 8:00 in 10,761 polling stations organized in Uzbekistan, the national anthem of the Republic of Uzbekistan sounded, and voters started to cast their votes.

During the election campaign, which for the first time involves candidates from five political parties, no party recorded violations.

The total number of registered voters is 19 million 859 thousand 127.

The first polling station for the election of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan opened on 24 October at 04:00 Tashkent time in the cities of Tokyo, Japan, Seoul - South Korea. And the elections of the President of Uzbekistan will end on 25 October at 06:00 Tashkent time in New York.

As previously reported, at the polling stations for the election of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, conditions were created for early voting of voters who cannot be at their place of residence on election day.

On 14-20 October 2021, 421,618 citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan took part in early voting at polling stations organized in our country and abroad.

In particular, 301,094 of them voted in Uzbekistan, and 120,524 - abroad. Early voting was suspended on 20 October at 19:00.

The elections will be monitored by a total of 971 international observers, including from about 20 reputable international organizations, in particular 631 international observers from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly , the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Turkic Council and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and other international organizations, as well as 340 international observers from almost 50 countries.